Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Craig, Carl B. Jr., 1940 

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Child, 9, Chokes To Death 

  Carl B. Craig, Jr., nine-year-old son of the Rev. Carl B. Craig, pastor of 
the Suffolk Presbyterian Church, and the late Mrs. Eleanor Craig, was 
accidentally killed Sunday afternoon while playing at his home in Lakeside, 
choking himself on a strap with which he was playing "Wild West". 

  The little boy, a favorite in the neighborhood, his school and in the city 
generally, was staying indoors on account of inclement weather and had gone 
to his room to amuse himself.  When the sound of his playing ceased, his 
sister, Mary Eleanor Craig, went to the room, to find him unconscious on the 
floor, with the strap caught about his neck, having been pulled tight across 
the bed post as the little boy jumped off the bed. 

Pulmotor Squad Called 

  Dr. William C. Gibson was hurriedly summoned and the pulmotor squad from the 
Fire Department was called in and every effort was made to resuscitate the 
child, in vain. 

  Carl, Jr., a member of Miss Vaughan's grade in the Jefferson School, and 
also of the Sunday School of the Presbyterian Church, was a lovely child, 
sunny and happy and with a wide range of friends in his neighborhood. 

  He attended Sunday School Sunday morning and was in an unusually happy frame 
of mind when he went to his room to play, in a game that ended in tragedy. 

  Surviving him are his father, the Rev. Carl B. Craig, who has been seriously 
ill for some weeks with a heart attack; his sister, Mary Eleanor Craig, and 
his stepmother Mrs. Crystabel Craig, and a little brother, David Ernest Craig, 
all of Suffolk, and several uncles and aunts of Salisbury, Wilmington, and 
other points over the community. 


Carl B. CRAIG, Jr., son of Rev. Carl B. & M. Eleanor (JOHNSTON) CRAIG, 
b. 31 Jan 1931, Suffolk, accidentally strangled 21 Apr 1940, at home, Suffolk, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery*, Suffolk, 23 Apr 1940, 
"Smithfield (VA) Times," Vol. 21, No. 4, Apr. 25, 1940, p. 1, col. 6 

*His mother was also buried there; 
   both added to the Cedar Hill list, an extension of the 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_a.txt 

Apparently both were moved; they are marked with Rev. CRAIG & second wife 
   [Ida] Christabell (MOOREHOUSE) CRAIG, in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Greensboro, 
   Guilford Co., NC - 	Section 3, Lot 173.  (Find a Grave Mem. #121187865 &c.)

His mother's (donated, 1931) obit is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/b260s1ob.txt 


Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by 
Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), 
and re-formatted by File Manager. 

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